Stanley Kubrick's provocative adaptation of Anthony Burgess's future-shock novel was quite unlike anything previously seen on a movie screen. The 1971 film was nominated for four Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and won the New York Film Critics' Best Film and Best Director awards. The story traces the journey of derby-topped hooligan Alex (Malcolm McDowell, in a Golden Globe–nominated performance) from ultra-violent, amoral "droog" to brainwashed proper citizen and back again.

"Brilliant. A tour de force of extraordinary images, music, words and feelings."—New York Times